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Strictly Dynamite (RKO) is an uncomplimentary portrait of a radio clown (Jimmy Durante); his partner and mistress (Lupe Velez); his gagwriter (Norman Foster); and the gag-writer's agent. In it Jimmy Durante says '"incredulous" when he means "incredible"; "confederate" when he means "inveterate." The narrative is interrupted at intervals by a telephone repairman who calls up someone he dislikes to say "Nuts...
...Radio-Keith-Orpheum, still considered Hollywood's most mismanaged studio, was last week once more in the throes of reorganization. Pandro Berman resigned as production chief to head a small unit of his own. Of the 35 pictures which RKO released in the last half of 1933. only four (Little Women, Flying Down to Rio, Wild Cargo, Morning Glory) were money-making hits. In charge of RKO's 50 forthcoming pictures will be president Benjamin Bertram ("Bright Boy") Kahane. Most important on the production schedule for 1934-35: three Katharine Hepburn pictures (Joan of Arc, the Forsyte Saga, The Little...
...Life of Vergie Winters (RKO). Vergie Winters (Ann Hardingj is another of the cinema's unhappy heroines in the same boat as Madelon Claudet, Mary Lane in Only Yesterday and Ray Schmidt in Back Street. Her marathon of discontent starts when she is 20 and shows no sign of stopping when the picture ends with her release from jail, at 42. The man she loves, John Shadwell (John Boles) marries someone else, under the mistaken impression that Vergie has jilted him. Vergie gives birth to an illegitimate daughter named Joan. John and his rancid wife Laura (Helen Vinson) adopt...
...Manhattan, first was Radio-Keith Orpheum, which subsided into receivership early last year. Boom-time theatre rentals got RKO, and even a voluntary reorganization, which gave control to Radio Corp. of America, was of no avail. Quick to join the sad parade was United Cigar Stores, which toppled into bankruptcy in 1932 because its management had been tempted to speculate in real estate as a sideline. Another was Associated Telephone Utilities, which I. C. C. Commissioner Splawn lately held up to Congress as a horrible example of inflated capitalization. Paramount Publix, once believed to be so conservatively managed that Kuhn...
...Finishing School-Produced by RKO Radio. . . . An attempted seduction and an accomplished seduction. . . . Protest. . . . Protest. . . . "Glamour-Produced by Universal. . . . A stale and ancient plot. . . . Protest. . . . Protest...